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Polaris Juror Top 10 Albums Of 2012 Lists

January 4 2013 ·
by
Aaron Brophy

To celebrate the fact the Mayans were wrong and that we’ve made it to 2013 we decided to dedicate this week’s Polaris People column to the various top ten albums of 2012 lists some of our jurors have made.

If you’ve ever wanted to look into the minds of Polaris jurors for the purposes of typecasting or disagreement, now’s your chance.

Behold…

As the author/aggregator of this post I get to go first. Aaron Brophy of Risky Fuel’s #1 album was Dirty Ghosts’ Metal Moon. To read the rest of the list go here.

Mike Bell of the Calgary Herald’s #1 album was Diamond Rings’ Free Dimensional. To read his full list go here.

Carla Gillis of NOW Magazine considered St. Vincent’s Strange Mercy one of her top albums. To read her full list go here.

Tom Coxworth of CKUA considers Maria Dunn’s Piece By Piece one of his favourite albums of the year. Here’s his complete list:

Canailles – Manger Du Bois
Maria Dunn – Piece by Piece
Simone Felice – Simone Felice
John Wort Hannam – Brambles and Thorns
Cathy Jordan – All the Way Home
Loreena McKennitt – Troubadours on the Rhine
Passenger – All the Little Lights
The Tequila Mockingbird Orchestra – Follow My Lead, Lead Me to Follow
Awna Teixeira – Where the Darkness Goes
The White Buffalo – Once Upon A Time in the West

CHRY’s Ian Gormely considered Cloud Nothings’ Attack On Memory one of his favourite albums. To read his full list go here.

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